Category: Dessert

I’m back to making desserts, and I have nailed this one – my niece (much older now) approves of this dessert so there was no brushing of the tongue! Kanyah is a popular homemade snack, in both Liberia and Salone, that you pick up on the roadside. It’s almost similar in consistency to the peanut […]

Just over halfway through my holiday in Liberia and I am fearing returning to a cold and wet London. It was 32°C here yesterday and I made the mistake of checking the temperature back home – big mistake! I need to prepare my body for the sad shock it will get when I return, so I am already […]

Not sure about you, but I love to eat the skin of the mango just as much as I love to eat the flesh…I know I am probably alone on this. You have to catch it just at the right time so that both the skin and the flesh are still a little firm (not […]

People people people! I’m now officially the Queen Bee Baker!!! Ok, I may not have officially been awarded the title at my office bake sale for Lunch Box Gift a colleague and I organised the other week (Leslie Plaisted, well done Queen Bee Baker 2014!), but I have literally blown people’s heads off with this boozy […]

After 3 years of trying to perfect my baking skills (and being shamed by my niece after she famously rejected one of my baked ‘delights’), I have managed to throw down the best banana loaf to date!!! Yaayyyyy! As usual, I buy a bunch of bananas, eat a few and then they become overripe. I really […]

Anyone who knows me can tell you I am no baker. This was confirmed 3 years ago when I made a banana loaf that my niece spat out onto the couch after taking the tiniest bite. She was so offended by it she brushed it off her tongue AND pushed it off the couch. Since then I […]